Gleanings in bee culture . Hewas only three years old at that time, butwalked around among the hives \vithouteven a hat on, and did not seem to fearthem at all. He is now six years old, justas fond of honey; and last summer whenl:e was visiting us again his aunt addressedMr. Barge as Mr. B., and he said, Mr. B.,from the bee country; and since then heoften calls him that. At present all the yards, of which thereare two besides this, one a mile north oftown on our farm and the other a milesouth, are Iun entirely for extracted honey,as it does not take so much time to do this;and the last few yea
Gleanings in bee culture . Hewas only three years old at that time, butwalked around among the hives \vithouteven a hat on, and did not seem to fearthem at all. He is now six years old, justas fond of honey; and last summer whenl:e was visiting us again his aunt addressedMr. Barge as Mr. B., and he said, Mr. B.,from the bee country; and since then heoften calls him that. At present all the yards, of which thereare two besides this, one a mile north oftown on our farm and the other a milesouth, are Iun entirely for extracted honey,as it does not take so much time to do this;and the last few years the honey has notcome in fast enough to make a success ofcomb honey, as there were too many unfin-ished sections. We find that people, especially farmers,are using- honey more and more, and we donot have any trouble in disposing of thegreater part of the crop right at customers among- nearby farmerstake three sixty-pound cans each year fortheir family use. They do not consider it a GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Mr. G. W. Barge, Union Center, Wis., who keeps about 250 colonies in addition tomanaging a cold-storage business. luxuiy now as much as formerly, and nearlyall children are fond of it—at least, judg-ing by the number of them who come hereto get what they want to eat at extractingtime. One of these views shows the honey-house and the hives between that and thecold-storage building which faces on thestreet, so these are in quite a shelteiedplace. The trees shown in this picture aremostly apple and plum, with one other view is on the other side of thehouse, and shows the row of hives along thearbor-vitae hedge which divides the garden,bain, and chicken-yard from the are about a dozen basswood trees inthe yard. Union Center, Wis. STUDYING A SWARM FOR RECREATION Bees as Vibrating Molecules BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW Is there any fact in all the realm of na-ture more marvelous than the phenomenonexpressed in the words, the vibration ofthe molecu
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